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Army approves operational details of ‘combing operations’

ISLAMABAD: The military’s top brass approved on Monday the timeline and operational details of countrywide ‘combing operations’ against terrorists and militant groups, which would...

U.S. tells Pakistan it will have to fund F-16s itself

The United States has told Pakistan it will have to finance the purchase of American F-16 fighter jets itself after members of the U.S....

Pakistan will get fighter jets from elsewhere if funding not arranged: Sartaj

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said Tuesday that Pakistan requires F-16s fighter jets from Untied States for combating terrorism...

A new Fata

IN the wake of the successful military operation in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas, the demand for reforms here — referred to in Point...

A MATURE POLICY TOWARDS INDIA

Tension between India and Pakistan, and the hostility that goes with it, is a ‘constant’ not a ‘variable’. This is what our history of...

Mutually beneficial CPEC

The US$ 46 billion package offered by China in April last year is the biggest package ever offered to Pakistan by a foreign donor...

Time right for return of Afghan refugees: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Despite challenges, there is growing cordiality in relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which has contributed to increased engagement between the two countries, including...

Govt says it’s okay with Hurriyat talking to Pakistan

NEW DELHI: India has quietly dumped its most controversial "red line" with Pakistan. Two years after imposing a policy whereby Pakistani officials meeting Hurriyat...

Pakistan needs to block India’s move to become regional sheriff

ISLAMABAD: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has been mired with cost squabbles in political waters. But amid all this controversy over the CPEC...

CPEC’s momentum setting industrial cooperation fundamentals in place: Ahsan Iqbal

The Federal Minister for Planning Development and Reform Prof. Ahsan Iqbal has said that with the momentum of China Pakistan Economic Corridor a world...

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